New Pre 72 American drag class - it's right up our street!

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New Pre 72 American drag class - it's right up our street!

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Pete Walton gave me a shout the other night, he also spoke to Dave Billydoo and he thought it was a great idea...a new race class for next year's Dragstalgia event at Santa Pod.

Basically it is designed for all pre 1972 American bodied cars and the rules are in my view absolutely spot on for a bit of nostalgia drag racing and so far they go something like this:

Pre 1972 American body
Stock rear springs
Bolt on traction adders are acceptable, Caltracs, slapper bars etc.
You can inboard your springs
Engine as big as you like!
No power adders just carbs Idunno about injection at the moment!)
Tyres - as big as you can get under the body
Interior any way you fancy
I have no details on safety equipment, like belts and roll bars, but perhaps Pete will clue me in when he's ready.


Class will be run as a heads up, three qualies then run as a pro field.

So what do you think? Any takers?

Obviously we need a few cars to make this work so if you could be interested lets get a list together here and I'll ask Pete to start collating and contacting those interested.

Pete also says that he's seriously considering putting his hand into his pocket for some prize money! :trophy:
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Stock rear springs :cry:
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Post by Jerry Smith »

Sounds good to me, is billydoo going to turn up with the donny fat bird? :lol:
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Post by Blue »

Why not just use the rules for our very own Nostalgia Pro Stock? That was set up to achieve the same thing. I always thought it could be expanded at some point to run at other events like the gasser circus is.
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db wrote:Stock rear springs :cry:

nothing wrong with stock rear springs.. :) :) make peeps work a bit harder to get off the line well...and tuning will become paramount again. Good idea!

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Les Szabo wrote:
db wrote:Stock rear springs :cry:

nothing wrong with stock rear springs.. :) :) make peeps work a bit harder to get off the line well...and tuning will become paramount again. Good idea!

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Yeah, but i'm on coilovers... :cry:
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yes that does pose a problem!
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Post by DaveB »

Hey Marc/Jerry,will tell Annette what you called her :P :P :P

Sounds like it could be good,Trouble with the nostalgia class at the mopars,most cars are already in the KOS classes.

Loadsa cars out there,Bozs"sixtysix"coronet,Moores"Reckless"dart,Jerrys polara,Holmes"golden" polara,Carls 426Belv",Blues dart,

Just need the ford/chev guys to come play :thumbright:
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Is this the weekend before the mopars ?
Is Pete running his own car ? i've never seen it run since he put that big motor in it.
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This looks really good! :thumbright:
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Les Szabo wrote:
db wrote:Stock rear springs :cry:

nothing wrong with stock rear springs.. :) :) make peeps work a bit harder to get off the line well...and tuning will become paramount again. Good idea!

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Nice pic Les, pleased to see you've still looking after it for me after all these years ;)
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sorry Rob my memories like a siv...did you take that?....a real good pic...don't have too many as was never into piccy taking much just got on with Racing...have a few more apart from whats posted on here but thats it.....all little treasures!
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That's ok Les, keep it with my compliments!

I took that on 9th June '85 at Gary's Picnic. That was the weekend we bought the Satellite so was our first weekend at the Pod with the car.

I seem to remember taking that print and another that I thought you'd like to a pub in Edmonton for one of the 'local' (well, local to you) meets, so you could get copies made, but I never did see them again...

Dont worry, you can keep it now :lol:
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Hi Folks,

Wow I remember the Baron at the strip that weekend!
Cripes it seems like another lifetime ago LoL! :D
Sure Jim was there with the Hemi Runner?
Anyone got a piccy of an Orange 76 Aspen?

Whoops forgot what I was gonna write DoH.
Wheel tubs or stock wheel houses??? :shock:

Should also be 600 cube limit to keep the costs down TOO!
Was gonna say 500 but Nick would kill me!!! :D

bacca.
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